NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

NV41

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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